Family Fun Festival Presents SHELebration: A Tribute to Shel Silverstein July 13, 2009

Celebrate Millennium Park's 5th birthday with a tribute to the creative work of Chicago's own Shel Silverstein: poet, author, illustrator, songwriter and performer. Famous for his long list of children books, Silverstein was also a Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated songwriter. Join special guest poetry readers along with frequent Silverstein musical collaborators and friends Bobby Bare, Sr., Bobby Bare Jr., Pat Dailey and Chicago's own Jon Langford and Sally Timms for a night of song and performance that bring this great artist's work to life.

Additionally, the program will feature Steve Edwards of WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio, Miss Lori’s Campus of PBS Kids, legendary spoken word jazz artist, Ken Nordine, poet and Louder Than A Bomb youth poetry festival founder Kevin Coval, Second City and Saturday Night Live alumni member Tim Kazurinsky, storytellers from WNEP Theater’s KIDSKALD program and members of the Annoyance Theater Company, who will read from Silverstein classic books, Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Runny Babbit, Don’t Bump the Glump! and Other Fantasi...

Official Website: http://www.millenniumpark.org/parkevents/event.aspx?id=842